BAD BROWNIE POINTS FOR QILIHO: DPP rules there is insufficient evidence to file criminal charges against former Assistant Police Commissioner Henry Brown; There never was: Qiliho wanted the top job

10/3/2016

So Qiliho, DPP, and others set out to hound Brown out of the Police Force

Director of Public Prosecutions Christopher Pryde has decided that no criminal charges will be filed against former Assistant Police Commissioner Henry Brown.

Pryde has confirmed receiving three files from Police on Henry Brown alleging abuse of office in three separate matters.

Pryde said following a review of each of the three files, they have advised Police that there is insufficient evidence to proceed and no criminal charges will be filed.

He said any issues arising concerning possible breaches of Police procedure are solely matters to be decided by the Police Commissioner.

Brown who is in Sydney had resigned from the Fiji Police Force in January this year.

He was on leave and had later asked for an extension of leave which was allowed by Police Commissioner Brigadier General Sitiveni Qiliho.

Meanwhile Qiliho said there are some internal police disciplinary issues regarding Brown however they will have to move on as Brown has opted to resign. Source: Fijivilllage News

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/hounded-out-assistant-police-commissioner-henry-brown-resigns-ending-30-years-of-illustrious-police-career-informs-qiliho-the-team-tasked-to-investigate-him-brown-are-facing-criminal-and-other-charges

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24 Comments

Samjha

11/3/2016 03:37:54 am

That was obvious right from the outset. Removing people to takeover converted positions has been the modus operandi of the Bainimarama regime. How else do think Bainimarama is today the PM of Fiji? How is a mediocre lawyer like Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum the Attorney General and Minister for Justice ?
Qiliho, Kean or anyone else in the Bainimarama set up is there in their position through conspiracy, not meritocracy .

Rajend Naidu

11/3/2016 04:18:49 am

Editor,
Dictator's Henchman
We learn from LAHT 10/03 article ' Top Pinochet Henchman Dies in Chile ' that Gen. Sergio Arellano Stark, who led the notorious "Caravan of Death " that liquidated dissidents in the wake of the 1973 military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power, died Wednesday .
The retired officer who was convicted of crimes against humanity but never set foot in prison, spent the final years of his life confined at a retirement home.
Human rights lawyer, Carmen Hertz, the widow of Caravan victim Carlos Berger reacting to the news of Arellano death said " A repressor who headed one of the most atrocious extermination missions of the dictatorship, which was one of the foundational episodes of the dictatorship, has died in impunity".
The toll from Pinochet's 1973 - 1990 regime includes 3000 deaths and more than 25000 documented victims of torture, while tens of thousands of other dissidents were forced into exile.
The same has happened in Fiji between the first military coup of 1987 and the last military coup of 2006.
The only difference is one of scale.
We must always remember that.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Osea Malamalanitabua

11/3/2016 11:06:24 am

Well said Rajend Naidu...Dictatorship is evil as we learn and know throughout our Human History.Centrlal America and South America people faced the onslaught of Dictatorship and the worst of it kind for decades.There is no need for Fiji to have a Coup..greed turned Fiji to what we have become FFP by name and Military Rule is alive in our midst.I pray and hope that Bainimarama and his family will not face the sufferings met by Mussolini after WW2.The rest is History and May God Bless us All and return Democracy to the citizens of Fiji and Rotuma.Where there is a Will there is A Way.Vinakwa.

Rajend Naidu

11/3/2016 09:38:50 pm

Editor,
A ROGUE MiLITARY
We learn from CCTV News ( Voices & Votes ) 12/03 that according to the UN Sudan troops have been engaged in looting, raping and killing of civilians.
What kind of a military does that?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu
from ULURU.

Rajend Naidu

12/3/2016 03:56:27 pm

Editor,
The Messiah Status is Unsustainable
We learn from the Reuter's report ' As hard times hit, Eygptians at last find faults with Sisi' (12/03 ) that television presenter Azza al- Henawy addressing the Eygptian president said " Your excellency : you are not working. Not one single issue has been solved since you took over".
State television, known for being fiercely loyal, launched an internal investigation on Wednesday into Henawy for her remark. But her comment were hardly isolated.
The former military chief who overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood to take power in 2013 is facing the first sustained PUBLIC CRITICISM OF HIS RULE.
After years of publicly lionising Sisi as the saviour of the nation, many of the country's most influential figures have emerged to blame the president for the country's current predicament.
He has turned out to be The Emperor With No Clothes .
Eygpt's most prominent newspaper editor, Ibrahim Eissa who initially hailed Sisi's rise to power ... has condemned the president for the jailing of a young novelist.
" Sisi came into power with huge level of popularity " said H A Hellyer non - resident fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington . " that was never going to last. The messiah status is unsustainable ".
In a rambling speech last month Sisi appeared angry and unsure, complaining Eygptians were focusing on his faults rather than his achievements. The speech was met by an unprecedented deluge of sarcastic comments from Eygptians on the Internet, with a popular description on social media comparing him to Libya's eccentric deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Previously docile politicians have emerged in recent days to take potshots at the president.
Muhammad Abu al-Ghar, a prominent secularist and former Sisi supporter, wrote a column last week accusing him of presiding over a collapsed economy, a police force that " beats and tortures" and a government whose ministers are purely " ceremonial ".
Hamden Sabahy, a leftist politician who first backed Sisi's crackdown on Islamist told Reuters " Eygpt is experiencing the death of politics, dismissal of other points of views, a demonising of alternatives, a call for blind unity".
Eissa, the newspaper editor, acknowledged " there was a national consensus on ignoring human rights abuses if they happened to terrorists; let them burn. And many did not care about oppressing activists". But " suddenly people realised it happened to them too. Incidents of average citizens dying in police custody sparked protests".
Last month more than 10,000 doctors protested against police brutality after policemen beat two doctors at a public hospital. It was the largest demonstration since authorities curbed the right to protest in late 2013 after Sisi's takeover.
Some of the doctors compared the beatings to the 2010 death of Khaled Said, a youth whose killing in custody helped ignite the revolt that brought down Mubarak.
" no one who is educated matters in the country " Momen Abdelazim, one of the doctors who was beaten told Reuters " I am seriously considering immigration, at least for the sake of my one year old daughter".
Notice any parallels with what has happened in Fiji since the 2006 takeover by former military chief Bainimarama?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

rajend naidu

12/3/2016 09:12:06 pm

Editor,
Ben H Bagdikian, a renowned journalist, newspaper executive, media critic and professor who helped published the Pentagon Papers and for decades was a passionate voice for journalistic integrity, has died. He was 96. ( the guardian 12/03 ).
Humanity has lost a good man. RIP
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Antonio Manakoruptawa

13/3/2016 04:07:20 am

Well, the message of Qiliho is most disturbing. What kind of man would want to perform sodomy? Acoording to international standards, both partners in a gay relationship are gay, including the person who is not on the receiving hand, so to speak. Qiliho is betraying himself while posting such commenta. The man's bisexuality is somewhat weird.

Welcome Home

13/3/2016 11:20:49 am

Bad Brownie Points would surely apply to a Muslim privately-funded foundation for girls ONLY at Koronivia teaching only Koranic studies leavened with cooking and needlework? Why and How could this be permitted in the second decade of 21st century if equality of opportunity and genuine progress are to be afforded for all in Fiji? Utmost folly!

Deko

13/3/2016 08:54:52 pm

Who is funding this " Muslim privately funded foundation" and it's fundamentalist Muslim ideology?

IS-IS'NT

14/3/2016 10:23:40 am

Check out the constructions and upgrades of mosques and madrasis throughout Fiji. Mosques which previously couldnt pay their electricity bills are now making multi-storey structures. Where have all these money come from? That IS the billion dollar question.

a Hobbit

15/3/2016 06:28:17 am

Nothing wrong with this. It's privately funded. Go start your own school with your own money.

Pita

16/3/2016 02:02:48 am

In early December the Fiji Times ran an article about the rebuilding of a school in Ba that would recruit orphans as young as 4 years old to be schooled in the Qoran. The school was burnt down some time ago but a foreign donor had paid for its re=establishment. Such schools as this where young kids were brainwashed in Salafist/Wahabi ideology were established by the thousands in Pakistan by General ul Haq and they later served as recruiting grounds for the Taliban and suicide bombers in Afghanistan and Iraq

Rajend Naidu

13/3/2016 09:55:20 pm

Editor,
An ABC Four Corners investigative journalist and cameraman trying to question the Malaysian PM Najib Razak over a corruption scandal was arrested by police and had their passport confiscated and ordered not to leave the country.
Speaking to Nine News Network from Fiji, Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop said " Australia supports freedom of speech, we support the role of journalists in reporting the news around the world".
Now rogue rulers by contrast don't believe in that. They believe in suppressing free speech and journalists right to report matters of public interest.
Rogue rulers use the police as their henchmen to do their dirty work in harassing and hounding and persecuting people who have the audacity to question their crooked dealings.
Mr Najib has been under fire over allegations more than $A1 billion was deposited into his personal bank account.
It makes ex Fiji PM Mahendra Chaudry and that deposit in his personal bank account look like small change!
Mr Najib should know you can suppress journalist with the use of State power you possess at this time but you can't suppress the truth.
The truth will eventually triumph .
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu
Sydney

Rajend Naidu

14/3/2016 06:59:25 pm

Editor,
Paul Smith tells us in his letter to the Australian 15/03 that " Australia's
Four Corners crew were arrested in Malaysia for the simple reason that they wanted to ask the very same questions that Malaysians want answers to ".
When rulers want to keep things hidden from the public, especially corrupt dealings, they don't like anyone asking questions.
It's not hard to see why Fijileaks is disliked by the mob in power in Fiji and their apologists.
Fijileaks does what ABC Four Corners does : raise pertinent questions regarding the conduct of those in power.
Rogue rulers don't like that - anywhere.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu.

maropito

14/3/2016 12:22:02 am

Just go to the website below to see how happy the muslims are in this world

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tJnW8HRHLLw?feature=player_embedded

Rajend Naidu

14/3/2016 06:50:01 am

Editor,
Responding to Donald Trump's claim that the protesters at his campaign rallies were sent by Democrat presidential candidate "communist " Bernie Saunders , Saunders said that is " not true; the truth is this guy is a pathological liar".( 7 news 14/03 )
Imagine a pathological liar poised to become US President!
We get leaders like that from time to time.
We have had our share in Fiji.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu.

Raj

14/3/2016 08:05:10 pm

High rate of crime means its beter he remains the military land force commander... Give the post of commssioner to a deceiving candidate

Rajend Naidu

14/3/2016 09:10:33 pm

Editor,
Courage to Speak Out
We learn from Radio Free Europe 14/03 article ' Russians Who Disagee With the Kremlin No Longer Afraid to Speak Out' that a minority of public spirited citizens who disagree with the Kremlin's bellicose course are no longer afraid to speak out.
They show that fear and conformity that engulfed Russian society in the past may be dissipating .
Speaking to the Daily Beast at his 85 th birthday celebration former president Mikhail Gorbachev said that " fear is very bad and very dangerous" and that Russia needs another round of " glasnost".
( openness). That is transparency and accountability by those who govern.
That is something not only Russia needs.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Rajend Naidu

15/3/2016 02:22:42 am

Editor,
Long Reach of the Law
We learn from the LAHT 14/03 article ' Former Mayor Arrested for Ordering Attack on Journalist' that Solis Arzola was arrested for his alleged role in the attack of journalist Karla Silva in Sept,2014, the Articulo 19 press rights organisation said.
They said they expected the highest standard of justice from the court.
Silva was savagely beaten for a story published on the mismanagement in the city.
The attack has left her permanently damaged.
There were indications from the start that Solis Arzola, a member of the governing party, was the intellectual author of the attack, but he had not been prosecuted until now. Others involved in the attack have been prosecuted.
Some People in power think they can do anything and get away with it, because the law does not apply to them by virtue of their powerful position.
Well, fortunately that is not always the case.
People who abuse their power need to keep that in mind.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Welcome Home

15/3/2016 08:43:07 am

Fiji Women's Crisis Centre estimates cost of Domestic Violence in Fiji in 2014 at $700m. Using a New Zealand model to estimate such specific economic cost in the year 2002 it was assessed at $200m. Dr Biman Prasad in 2012 was reported as estimating it at $498m for the year 2011. Well, if all elements of relevant cost are factored in now post-cyclone Winston there would be little difficulty in arriving at a judgement that all prior estimates were faulty, too conservative and have grossly failed women, young girls, children, and the nation. It is quite obvious that no consideration of States of Natural Disaster were included in such deliberations and December 2012 is proof of this in the paltry pre-provisioned supplies. No inflatables on the Nadi River? Generosity of current donors is plugging the gaps of decades of neglect. Meanwhile, women, girls, the elderly and disabled suffer disproportionately because inappropriate priorities have been accorded to their needs. The eleven characteristics of abusive men deserve focused study. Particularly relevant are: 1. Control (leading to endemic and institutionalised FEAR) 2. Entitlement 9. Externalisation of Responsability allied to 10. Denial, Minimisation & Victim Blaming 11. Serial Battering (due to impunity over many years through poor, inconsistent policing through a lack of professionalism. Focus is now necessary on the fast-tracked education of girls who must be fearless in striving for excellence and aspire to an unshakeable self belief and self esteem. The leadership must come unselfishly from The Top. A Tall Order!

Rajend Naidu

15/3/2016 10:51:15 pm

Editor,
Media Makes Us Democratic
I don't know what led Cole Bailey to write " When will the media go on holiday and let the government run the country? "( The Australian, 16/03 ).
He forgets the media makes us democratic. The media holds power to account on behalf of the public. If the media goes on " holiday " democracy will go to the dogs. It is no coincidence that when there is a coup the media is the first thing that is sent on a " holiday ".
For a government - any government - to run the country democratically the media must never go on holiday. They must be on a 24/7 watch to keep the government on the straight and narrow democratic track.
This is the indispensable role of the media. That's elementary.
I wonder why Cole can't understand that?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidi

John

16/3/2016 09:00:28 am

Would it not make sense to send this scathing criticism of Cole to The Australian? I doubt Cole reads Fiji Leaks.

And

16/3/2016 11:16:58 pm

Cole will get a chance to read Rajend Naidu's letter in The Australian today 17/03. and hopefully get him to rethink his attitude about the media and its role in a democracy.

Bahuki

16/3/2016 10:01:45 am

Dirty tactics taken in Frankie's typical modus operandi covert style operations in order to elect his own elite is clearly nothing new.

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